NFHS time limit

[shipwreck]

Oh GREAT!!!, our HS governing body has done away with the 90 minute time limit for NFHS girls softball for this upcoming season for this Fall. Just curious, do you or don't you have time limits in your HS games? Dave

[tcblue13]

Normally we don't in NC. Ocasionally a HS that does not have their own field or their varsity is using their field on a day when the JV is playing and has to use a local rec field will add a time limit to the game if the rec field has league games following the Fed game.

Sometimes 15 after 3
Most times 10 after 5

[NSABlue]

Oh GREAT!!!, our HS governing body has done away with the 90 minute time limit for NFHS girls softball for this upcoming season for this Fall. Just curious, do you or don't you have time limits in your HS games? Dave[/B]


I work in Maryland. No time limits for NFHS games here but we do use the 10 run rule after 5 innings.

[SC Ump]

SC - no time limit for Varsity games. If JV games are scheduled before a Varsity, the JV game must finish in time for the Varsity to start on time.

The JV coaches usually agree to a rule of no new inning after 30 minutes prior to the Varsity game. If it gets to 20 minutes before the scheduled Varsity start, then it is just a drop dead time on the JV game.

[tcblue13]

SC Ump - Where are you?

[CLBuffalo]

I too am in South Carolina. In our region if a JV game is played before a Varsity game it must stop 30 minutes before the scheduled start of the Varsity game. There is no state-wide time limit but coaches can agree to one before a game begins. They can also agree to an inning limit e.g. 5 innings. If the game is tied at that point we go to the ITB. The Run Ahead rule is 10 after 4 1/2 or 5 innings but if both coaches agree before the game we can also do 15 after 2 1/2 or 3 innings. In any regular game the ITB isn't used until the 9th inning.

[azbigdawg]

Your first problem is that you have softball in the fall..yuk...

NO time limits here in AZ for any level. You get the occasional ugly subvarsity game, but most of the time it works out. 10 after 5 run rule at all levels.

[SC Ump]

Originally Posted by tcblue13

SC Ump - Where are you?

I live in Columbia now.

[PABlue]

No time limit here in PA I'm glad to are would have missed one heck of a game that went 13 innings till the home team won in bottom of the inning on a bases loaded single. After such agreat game heated to see any team lose.

[hitdawg23]

Originally Posted by shipwreck

Oh GREAT!!!, our HS governing body has done away with the 90 minute time limit for NFHS girls softball for this upcoming season for this Fall. Just curious, do you or don't you have time limits in your HS games? Dave

Here in Mississippi we have time limits for our JV 1 hour drop dead for MHSAA play and No time limit for Varsity. MPSA(Private) 1:30 for Varsity and 1:00 drop dead for JV.

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by shipwreck

Oh GREAT!!!, our HS governing body has done away with the 90 minute time limit for NFHS girls softball for this upcoming season for this Fall. Just curious, do you or don't you have time limits in your HS games? Dave

Good, as it should be. The game was never meant to be played with a clock. Of course, it is sometime needed for scheduling conflicts like the above JV examples and weekend tournaments.

[Andy]

As Darrell stated, no time limits at any level here in AZ. Our regional Umpire board is pushing for either a 1:30 or a 1:45 no new inning time limit for FR and JV ball, no limit for Varsity. The pushback we are getting now from the school AD's is that if they do it for softball, they will have to do it for baseball as well so that the girls and the boys will be "equal"!

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by Andy

pushback we are getting now from the school AD's is that if they do it for softball, they will have to do it for baseball as well so that the girls and the boys will be "equal"!

What B.S. Title 9 has nothing whatsoever in it that requires "equal rules." What utter balderdash. Gibberish. Twaddle. Poppycock. Lawyerphobia. If this has any merit whatsoever, then by the same logic, the softball games should be 9 innings (or baseball 7).

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by Dakota

What B.S. Title 9 has nothing whatsoever in it that requires "equal rules." What utter balderdash. Gibberish. Twaddle. Poppycock. Lawyerphobia. If this has any merit whatsoever, then by the same logic, the softball games should be 9 innings (or baseball 7).

In Texas baseball and softball both play seven innings.

[MichaelVA2000]

In Virginia, varsity games have no time limits. JV games have a two hour NNI rule. If the game is tied after seven innings the game goes into ITB, same for JV if time has not expired. Varsity and JV use the ten runs after five innings rule.